Seeking info on DOS disk layout

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From: Tom Lane
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 18:12

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I'm thinking of writing some software to allow a non-DOS machine to read and
write DOS disks.  For this I need information on the logical format of DOS
disks: partitions, FAT tables, directories, etc. etc.  Can anyone recommend
a concise, complete, and accurate reference book?  Is there an "official"
specification available from Microsoft or IBM?

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From: tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Seeking info on DOS disk layout
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Date: 9 Jan 91 18:12:02 GMT
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